HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — Returning star Kyle Dugger is back as a captain for Lenoir-Rhyne University’s football team, which opens the season Aug. 31 at West Alabama. In an announcement via press release on Tuesday, new Bears head coach Drew Cronic said Dugger, senior T.J. Smith and juniors Jonathan Nolan and Landon Scott are the captains for his first LRU team. …
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL: Conference coaches pick Lenoir-Rhyne to finish eighth
HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University has been picked to finish eighth in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) in volleyball this season. The Bears were projected to finish ahead of Coker, Catawba and Newberry (S.C.) in a 12-team league race that head coaches say Wingate is favored to win. Wingate is the preseason pick as league champion for the …
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Former Lenoir-Rhyne player returns as assistant coach for lacrosse
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – A former Lenoir-Rhyne University lacrosse player is returning to the Bears, joining the coaching staff of Greg Paradine as an assistant coach. Jay Goldsmith, who started for two years at LRU and a 2015 graduate, has been coaching at Methodist. “I am thrilled to welcome Jay Goldsmith back home,” Paradine said in an LRU press release. “Jay …
MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER: Lenoir-Rhyne picked to finish second; 4 Bears on preseason All-SAC
HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Four Lenoir-Rhyne University men’s soccer players earned preseason honors, and the Bears were projected to finish second this season in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC). In a vote of conference head coaches released on Monday by the SAC, Wingate got nine of 11 first-place votes to emerge as the favorite to win the league title. …
LENOIR-RHYNE: Bears launch $2.6 million campaign to build McGeachy Sports Performance Center
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has launched a campaign to raise $2.6 million to build the Neill McGeachy Sports Performance Center in honor of the late Bears athlete and former director of intercollege athletics. The school announced the campaign in honor of McGeachy — a 1965 LRU graduate who died earlier this year – at its annual on-campus dinner on …